Kumtangaza Kristo Aliyesulubiwa
12:1 1Kor 1:17; 2:4; 13; 2Kor 10:10; 11; 1Kor 1:6Ndugu zangu nilipokuja kwenu, sikuja na maneno ya ushawishi wala hekima ya hali ya juu nilipowahubiria siri ya Mungu. 22:2 Gal 6:14; 1Kor 1:23Kwa kuwa niliamua kutokujua kitu chochote wakati nikiwa nanyi isipokuwa Yesu Kristo aliyesulubiwa. 32:3 Mdo 18:1-18; 1Kor 4:10; 9:22; 2Kor 11:29-30; 12:5-10; 13:9; 7:15Mimi nilikuja kwenu nikiwa dhaifu na mwenye hofu na kwa kutetemeka sana. 42:4 Rum 15:13; 1Kor 2:1; 1:17; 2Pet 1:16Kuhubiri kwangu na ujumbe wangu haukuwa kwa hekima na maneno ya ushawishi bali kwa madhihirisho ya nguvu za Roho 5ili imani yenu isiwe imejengwa katika hekima ya wanadamu bali katika nguvu za Mungu.
Hekima Ya Kweli Itokayo Kwa Mungu
62:6 Efe 4:13; Flp 3:15; Kol 4:12; Ebr 5:14; 6:1; Yak 1:4; 1Kor 1:20; Za 146:4Lakini miongoni mwa watu waliokomaa twanena hekima, wala si hekima ya ulimwengu huu au ya watawala wa dunia hii wanaobatilika. 72:7 Rum 16:25; Efe 3:5, 9; Kol 1:26; 2Tim 1:9Sisi tunanena hekima ya Mungu ambayo ni siri, tena iliyofichika, ambayo Mungu aliikusudia kabla ya ulimwengu kuwepo, kwa ajili ya utukufu wetu. 82:8 1Kor 1:20; Za 24:7; Mdo 7:2; Yak 2:1Hakuna hata mtawala mmoja wa nyakati hizi aliyeelewa jambo hili. Kwa maana kama wangelielewa, wasingemsulubisha Bwana wa utukufu. 92:9 Isa 64:4; 65:17Lakini ni kama ilivyoandikwa:
“Hakuna jicho limepata kuona,
wala sikio limepata kusikia,
wala hayakuingia moyoni wowote,
yale Mungu amewaandalia
wale wampendao”:
102:10 Mt 13:11; 2Kor 12:1-7; Gal 1:12; 2:2; Efe 3:3-5; Yn 14:26Lakini mambo haya Mungu ametufunulia kwa Roho wake.
Roho huchunguza kila kitu, hata mambo ya ndani sana ya Mungu. 112:11 Yer 17:9; Mit 20:27Kwa maana ni nani anayejua mawazo ya mtu isipokuwa roho iliyo ndani ya huyo mtu? Vivyo hivyo hakuna mtu ajuaye mawazo ya Mungu isipokuwa Roho wa Mungu. 122:12 Rum 8:15; 1Kor 1:20-27; Yak 2:5Basi hatukupokea roho ya dunia bali Roho atokaye kwa Mungu, ili tuweze kuelewa kile kipawa ambacho Mungu ametupatia bure. 132:13 1Kor 1:17Haya ndiyo tusemayo, si kwa maneno tuliyofundishwa kwa hekima ya wanadamu bali kwa maneno tuliyofundishwa na Roho, tukifafanua kweli za kiroho kwa maneno ya kiroho. 142:14 Yn 14:17; 1Kor 3:1Mtu ambaye hana Roho hawezi kupokea mambo yatokayo kwa Roho wa Mungu, kwa kuwa ni upuzi kwake, naye hawezi kuyaelewa kwa sababu hayo yanaeleweka tu kwa upambanuzi wa rohoni. 152:15 1Kor 3:1; Gal 6:1Mtu wa kiroho hubainisha mambo yote, lakini yeye mwenyewe habainishwi na mtu yeyote.
162:16 Isa 40:13; Rum 11:34; Yn 15:15“Kwa maana ni nani aliyefahamu mawazo ya Bwana
ili apate kumfundisha?”
Lakini sisi tunayo mawazo ya Kristo.
1And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.2:1 Some manuscripts proclaimed to you God’s mystery 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”2:9 Isaiah 64:4—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual 14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”2:16 Isaiah 40:13
But we have the mind of Christ.
